[Mr Gumbo]

Originally Posted by KMTSista

you know its funny you mention that because that was the topic of discussion with my last family function that during segregation we had no choice but to be together regardless of status quo, black doctors, lawyers, etc lived in the same communities, now like Simbad said on a Different World "a brotha get a suite and start trippin". Once we "make it", we don't ackowledge where we came from.

I hate to say this (but then again no I don't)......let me be real.........I feel intergation was not for our good.........we didn't see the fine print.

Think about it, I honestly think that intergation was really a conspiracy becaus during the times of segregation, we stood together and faught our battles together, we were building our businesses in our communities, we were climbing out of the pit as a people regardless of outside oppression. Our families were closer, our men respect our women and vice versa, then all of a sudden they say "Come on black people, we sorry, come join us in our communities and schools.......and yes you can sit at the front of the bus", when in their minds they are thinking quietly "oh no, these black people are climbing out of mental slavery, sticking together and accomplishing things. The men are setting examples, the women are taking care of their homes, they are no longer mentally castrated, so what can we do........oh! I know, let's pretend to intergrate with them so we can secretly separate them". Then to add insult to injury, here comes yt woman screaming "women's lib" to women who were never oppressed by their own men.

Conspiracy! Those Mo Fo's never intergrated with us, never have and never will, they just opened the cage, or as someone said, expanded the plantation.

MLK was a great man and I don't wanna take away from what he did but he helped get us here where we are. You right we had everything in our neighborhoods, well we had no choice but we had everything all the way up to the black wall street. When we was doing all this marching they were laying the ground work for what we see now. As soon as we figure this out they have another plan they will unleash to try and mess us up again. We started walking out of our hoods walking pass Claira's Kitchen to walk to Applebee's and Claira's Kitchen food was far superior to Applebee's but we did because we could and Claira's eventually closed down. We used to be able to see the Doctor or the Lawyer drive up on the block in a big Cadillac with some big gangsta whitewalls and we'd be like ah mayne I wanna be a doctor when I grow up, now all we have is the Drug Dealers rollin up on some 22's.